Bug 912299
| Summary: | kernel installation fails if GREP_OPTIONS is set | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Vasily Averin <vvs> |
| Component: | dracut | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 6.3 | CC: | bkb, dracut-maint-list, jstodola, lnovich |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | dracut-004-322.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Cause:
dracut makes use of "grep" without unsetting the environment variable GREP_OPTIONS.
Consequence:
If the user has set GREP_OPTIONS while calling yum or running dracut, usages of the "grep" tool could fail because of arbitrary options.
Fix:
dracut now unsets the GREP_OPTIONS environment variable.
Result:
User settings of the GREP_OPTIONS environment variable does not affect the correct operation of dracut anymore.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-11-21 21:55:06 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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First alpha build for testing: http://people.redhat.com/harald/downloads/dracut/dracut-004-316.el6/ Would be nice, if you could test it. I can confirm that problem is resolved with dracut-004-316.el6 Reproduced with dracut-004-303.el6: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -i --force kernel-2.6.32-424.el6.x86_64.rpm warning: kernel-2.6.32-424.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f21541eb: NOKEY The default plymouth plugin (text) doesn't exist E: Failed to install /lib64/libnss_dns-2.12.so mkinitrd failed warning: %posttrans(kernel-2.6.32-424.el6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q dracut dracut-004-303.el6.noarch [root@localhost ~]# Verified with dracut-004-335.el6: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -i --force kernel-2.6.32-424.el6.x86_64.rpm warning: kernel-2.6.32-424.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f21541eb: NOKEY [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q dracut dracut-004-335.el6.noarch [root@localhost ~]# System booted correctly after reboot. Moving to VERIFIED. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1674.html |
Description of problem: kernel installation fails if environment contains GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always" variable. # rpm -q dracut-network dracut-network-004-283.el6.noarch # export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always" # rpm -ihv kernel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel-firmware ########################################### [ 50%] 2:kernel ########################################### [100%] The default plymouth plugin (text) doesn't exist E: Failed to install /lib64/libnss_dns-2.12.so mkinitrd failed warning: %posttrans(kernel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-network-004-283.el6.noarch How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. be sure that dracut-network is installed 2. set up GREP_OPTIONS variable: # export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always" 3. try to install new kernel Actual results: dracut fails with following message in dracut.log Mon Feb 18 13:55:34 MSK 2013 Err: Failed to install /lib64/libnss_ESC[01;31mESC[KdnsESC[mESC[K-2.12.so Expected results: no errors Additional info: with dracut debug we have found that problem occurs during execution /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/95nfs/install dracut_install $(for i in $(ls {/usr,}$LIBDIR/libnss*.so 2>/dev/null); do echo $i;done | egrep "$nsslibs") Using "egrep -q" resolved the problem. In upstream dracut code the problem went away with following commit http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=commitdiff;h=5e5f3d5e6c9d94996c9a28bf38f26a4d463c4dd4